OUAGADOUGOU, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, authorized to return home on Wednesday, "is not in total freedom", said his political party, the People's Movement for Progress (MPP) in a statement on Thursday. On Wednesday, the transitional governmen...
OUAGADOUGOU, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, arrested on Jan. 24 during the military coup that overthrew him, was authorized on Wednesday to return home, the transitional government announced in a statement. Kabore will return to his residence in the...
Map of Burkina FasoPresident: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (2015) Prime Minister: Paul Kaba Thieba (2016) Land area: 105,714 sq mi (273,799 sq km); total area: 105,869 sq mi (274,200 sq km) Population (2014 est.): 18,365,123 (growth rate: 3.05%); birth rate: 42.42/1000; ...
THE military junta in Burkina Faso that took power in a coup has freed interim President Michel Kafando and two of his ministers from detention, the junta’s leader said yesterday as security forces fired in the air to quell protests. The decision to free Kafando appeared to signal possible ...
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso —President Thomas Sankara returned Monday from an official trip to the Soviet Union. On his way back from Moscow, he met with Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. It was Sankara’s first visit to the Kremlin since he took over this African nation, formerly Upper Volta, in...
A man wearing clothes with Russian's flag colours shouts during a demonstration in front of the conference room where the two days of national talks to adopt a transitional charter and designate an interim president to lead the country will take place, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso October...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by extremists in Burkina Faso’s northern province has killed at least 24 soldiers, one of the deadliest attacks on military in the West African nation’s history, the president said Tuesday. Several more soldiers were wounded and five are still missing from...
The article discusses resignation of West Africa's Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore due to protestations and attacks. Topics include demonstrations and fire attacks on Parliament, assertion of filling state head's position by Chief General of army Honore Traore, and connection of Economic ...
OUAGADOUGOU, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in 1987, a military tribunal ruled Wednesday after a trial that started on October 11, 2021. ...